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10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It will be peace for you,’ while the sword reaches up to the throat.”

11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
    A hot wind from the barren heights[a] in the desert,[b]
in the direction of[c] the daughter of my people,
    not to winnow and not to cleanse,
12 a wind too strong for[d] these will come for me,
    now also I speak judgments against them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:11 Literally “a wind of shimmering of barren heights”
  2. Jeremiah 4:11 Or “wilderness”
  3. Jeremiah 4:11 Literally “the way of”
  4. Jeremiah 4:12 Literally “a wind strong more than”